Engineer: Hundreds of people could die in Boeing plane crashes

The difficulties of the American civil aircraft industry, or rather, the quality of aircraft assembly, have long been of concern to the international community due to a significant number of incidents and disasters. It even came to serious personnel decisions in the Boeing campaign due to problems with the safety of airliners and a number of others.

So, in February, the Boeing board of directors decided to fire the company's vice president and head of the 737 MAX production program, Ed Clark, who worked there for 18 years, starting as a chief mechanic and engineer. In March, it became known that the company's CEO Dave Calhoun would leave his post at the end of 2024, and the chairman of the board of directors, Larry Kellner, would not be re-elected at the next board of directors in May.



Now, as the American media report, American legislators have become interested in this issue. At a hearing in the US Congress, Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour, who has worked for the company for over 10 years, said that hundreds of people could die in plane crashes due to safety problems in the production of airliners. The risk is very high.

He personally watched technological processes and discovered a problem with gaps between key parts of the skin of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner airliners. This affects over one thousand aircraft that are currently in operation by various air carriers.

The personnel who assemble the planes literally jump on parts of the structures to make connections, Salehpour said. According to the engineer, this can lead to deformations and stresses that will lead to breakdowns over time. Salekhpour began to raise questions about this at Boeing, but instead of correcting the situation with the production of aircraft, the company began to threaten him, including with physical violence. The engineer did not tolerate this.